Word: sardonicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce Cation's father was the principal of Benzonia Academy, where cows roamed the campus. Yet obviously the older Catton was a man of some wis dom and sardonic humor. Once, after working unsuccessfully against a county election proposition allowing the sale of liquor, he was asked how he...
PLAYED AT ITS BEST, Bertolt Brecht's work has the beauty and finesse of a perfectly constructed essay. Its proclaimed intention to be an entertainment of ideas emphasizes its immediacy and relevance; its values cannot be dismissed as belonging to a dramatized world unto itself. The current production of Brecht...
Director Jean Kalavski makes an admirable effort at bringing Hanley's moralistic and melodramatic period place to life. But weaknesses in the acting make an already difficult task impossible. Ira Flak's interpretation of Glas's impassivity often turns to feeble characteriessness. Michael Russell's Randalf is strong, if monotonous...
Lorin Hawes started out as a U.S. nuclear physicist, but in 1956 he emigrated to Australia because, he says, "I was fed up with warmongering, hillbilly officers, the CIA, the Pentagon, the whole damn lot." He lectured in Australian universities, but by 1965 found Australian society also becoming too militaristic...
Auden feels less need to qualify in attacking the present, its verbose pretensions, the decline of learning and language. Freud, up-to-date behavioral anthropology, as well as a gift for sardonic aphorism unmatched in poetry are all lightly trained on one of our much-vaunted achievements when the poet...